On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Philip Iezzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> (...)
> See the difference?
> Both are ugly in some way if I want to stick with this template style full
> of opening and closing tags. But at least, in a Smarty-template we can
> provide "real" newlines while they would get cut off by PHP's closing tag in
> a regular PHP/Zend_View-template. Using PHP_EOL is just an ugly workaround.

Yeah, I gotcha.

>> I don't understand exactly where they look messy. Details. ;-) Point
>> taken, HTML/PHP mixed doesn't look pretty -- then again, when people
>> use my website, they view it through a browser which renders it all
>> pretty and they don't have to look at the source code.
>
> Right. But that's not the point. We are talking about what could make our
> lives easier, the developers lives. The end user anyway gets a nice and
> clean output served by us.
> It would be really nice if PHP folks could provide us with an ini-setting to
> turn off this (in my eyes) nasty behavior.

I think I just understood what you're on about. I know it can be
painful, but you could join #php.pecl on efnet and talk to the
developers to see if they have a fix, or if they would be willing to
implement one. I'd do that before opening on a feature request on
bugs.php.net.

HTH,
Till

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